writing tools The Writers' Co-op is a great new podcast about how to make your freelance writing career work Thom Dunn

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magic tricks Fun with FriXion pens Mark Frauenfelder

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Gadgets Your home office could use some work of its own and these 20 items might just do the trick Boing Boing's Shop

Gadgets This training package will have you using all of Microsoft Office like a boss Boing Boing's Shop

Save over 45% on this Italian designed inkless pen that writes forever Boing Boing's Shop

tips Freakonomics interviews Kevin Kelly about his "68 bits of unsolicited advice" Mark Frauenfelder

Gadgets Are you cut out to be a COVID-19 stay-at-home teacher for your kids? Maybe these DIY projects can help. Boing Boing's Shop

cool tools I interviewed Cory Doctorow for the Cool Tools Podcast Mark Frauenfelder

Gadgets Transform your handwritten notes into editable digital text with this writing pad Boing Boing's Shop

art Art in the age of artifice Ferdinando Buscema

books A profile of Cliff "Cuckoo's Egg" Stoll, a pioneering "hacker hunter" Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Librecorps: an organization that connects student free/open source software developers with humanitarian NGOs Cory Doctorow

authoritarianism Cops and spooks all over the world rely on a junk-science "walking polygraph" method to steer their investigation Cory Doctorow

Business Mint: late-stage adversarial interoperability demonstrates what we had (and what we lost) Cory Doctorow

charity Charitable Giving Guide 2019 Boing Boing

happy mutant I chatted with Danny Elfman about his new MasterClass, and his ventriloquist dummy "Buddy" Rusty Blazenhoff

happy mutants Naomi Kritzer's "Catfishing on the CatNet": an AI caper about the true nature of online friendship Cory Doctorow

ransomware The penniless hero of the ransomware epidemic has written more decryptors than anyone else Cory Doctorow